Announcing the Winners of the ASF Short Story Contest!

*Before you do anything else, push play on this video. You will want Victory music playing while you enjoy the inaugural ASF Short Story Contest results!*

Back in November, I got this hairbrained idea to put together a short story contest based off a book cover I’d randomly been designing just for kicks. I put some feelers out, and BAM! some people were like, “Heck yeah! I wanna do that.” SO here we are!

It was an absolute blast reading all the entries…well, all except the judging part. I would rather not do that part, but the stories are inspiring. It’s thrilling to see all the passion and talent.

Thank you to every person who submitted to the contest! The coolest part is that we’re going to put together an anthology of Adventurous Scifi & Fantasy stories. Once we’ve polished these babies up and made them shine, we’ll slap ’em into a BE-a-U-tiful book that everyone will want to read and pass around to their friends.

I CANNOT wait.

Now, without further Ado…

Your Adventure Scifi & Fantasy Contest Winners

3rd Place goes to the talented Audrey Driscoll for “Blue Rose”

Woohoo! Congrats, Audrey!

3rd place receives

An interview or author profile right here on this website w/social media shares on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram once a week for a month

The next few months are going to be focused on any editing and revising we can do so that the anthology book will be polished to a blinding sheen and show off the shining talent of all the authors included within the pages. I am beyond excited to share their talent with you! Their stories will take you on adventures and startle your senses. Totally cannot wait!

Congratulations!

What do you think? Is this something you might want to join in another round? I’m always looking for ways to encourage and grow talent, passion, and drive!

Haha IF there’s another time. I’m woefully short on time and this is a big project! But seriously, Simon, it would be so great to have you participate. Will you come back to Blog Battle, do you think? I believe we’ll get it restarted this summer. 😀

Reblogged this on Fiction is Food and commented:
Rachael Ritchey announced the winners of the ASF short story competition. Huge congratulations to the top three winners and accolades to the runners up who will be featuring in the up-coming anthology The Crux.

I’m sure I will…after I recover from this one. haha j/k
Actually, I used to run a writing prompt called #BlogBattle that a couple of my former participants are going to help me reinvigorate. It’s a great way to meet other writers, gain support, and work on the craft. Keep an eye out for that too!

I changed the format too much, I think, and participation petered out after. We’re going to revamp and move to a once a month model while returning to a slightly more freestyle approach again. It need to be a fun challenge and not feel like work! 🙂
Thanks! I’m looking forward to getting it started again and having new names and faces join the crowd!

Reblogged this on heroicallybadwriter and commented:
Remember Rachael’s SF/Fantasy competition. Well here are the results folks.
Keep a look out on Rachael’s blog because there all sorts of interesting writing things popping up

I’m thrilled to be in the top 3 and delighted to see names I recognize from the blogosphere (Roger, Sha’Tara, Barb!) among the top 10 and in the anthology list. Thanks, Rachael, for having the idea and organizing the contest!

Congratulations to the winners and everyone that entered including the dear Rachael Ritchey for having the idea in the first place. Really looking forward to the next phase and seeing it all assembled into something rather special.

This was such a fun experience and I am so excited to work with you Rachel during the following process! Congrats to all the winners especially the top 3 😛 This was such a fun contest and I would definitely love to do something like it again!
~TTFN, Somebody, Somewhere over the rainbow

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Rachael Ritchey is the author of young adult fiction. Her clean but real and true-to-self writing reflects qualities of courage and hope with daring adventure and sweet romance that almost anyone can enjoy. Rachael lives in Spokane, WA with her husband, kids, and their dog named Hashtag.